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Cyanide and happiness:

Cyanide and happiness is one of my favourite comic strip series on the internet. With its basic drawing style comic strips can be uploaded in no time, the style of their art has changed over years and has currently set in the style seen above. The comics take a dark humour rout more often than not meaning its audience is quite a small section on the internet as it excludes children and the easily offended. They also have launched a miniseries called ‘depressed comic of the week’ where the dark humour takes an even grimmer root and recently began a YouTube channel where they have begun to animate their comic strips. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gwvXtfRjonc

 

Garfield:

Garfield is one of my least favourite comic series simply due to its poor levels of humour. However, Garfield is possibly one of the world’s most successful comic series to date beginning in 1978 (created by Jim Davis) has generated thousands in cash with all manner of merchandise, books, films and TV series that are still as popular as ever. The humour is supposed to appeal to people of any age leaving it very bland. The illustration is a bit more in-depth than that of the cyanide and happiness comics but still uses bright block colour that catches the eye of its audience.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Dark horse comics:

Dark Horse (founded in 1986 by Mike Richardson) has made comic books for some the biggest franchises such as The Fallout game series, Star Wars, Godzilla, Buffy the vampire slayer and many of their own series. Some of Dark Horses series have actually been made into motion pictures such as The Mask, Sin City and Alien vs Predator. The art style is very in-depth using some techniques only available on computers such as illumination and gradient colour, however, they still use hand drawings for their inks. Many of Dark Horses comics are normally quit grim and complex and are aimed towards a more mature audience. Dark Horse has managed to make it to the 3^rd top comic book publisher and is just behind D.C comics.